Now that the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has taken effect, many businesses are dealing with the inevitable post-compliance hangover, while others are breathing a sigh of relief that they were not impacted. For those businesses not impacted, it is important to remember that although they may not be subject to the GDPR, and there is no universal federal data protection law in the United States akin to the GDPR, there is still a significant number of federal and state data privacy laws to which they may be subject.

Morrison Mahoney Law Clerk Courtney Person was selected for two prestigious awards. Last month, Courtney received the Justice Reginald Lindsay Public Service Scholarship Award. Afterwards, Courtney received a second award, the Blanche E. Braxton Bar Scholarship from the Massachusetts Black Women Attorneys organization.